Unable to use Ctrl+TAB as keyboard shortcut

[lehitoskin]

Hydrus version

v608

Qt major version

Qt 6

Operating system

macOS 15 "Sequoia" (Intel)

Install method

Installer

Install and OS comments

Hydrus.Network.608.-.macOS.-.App.dmg

Bug description and reproduction

1. Open keyboard shortcut window
2. Select Main Window
3. Click Add
4. Click Keyboard text field
5. Press Ctrl+TAB
6. Nothing happens

I am trying to use this key sequence to set the command "move page selection right" (and Ctrl+Shift+TAB to "move page selection left").

Log output

[hydrusnetwork]

Thank you for this report. On Windows Qt, Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab seem to be already the default, on the Qt side of things, to do 'move notebook page tab left/right'. The shortcuts dialog can capture ctrl+tab for me, but if I map it to 'open command palette', it looks like the Qt hardcoded hook is catching it before I get to it and it still does 'change page tab'. However if I map Ctrl+G or something to 'move page tab left', it works fine. Interesting shortcut propagation, and I hadn't realised my system was working exactly this way.

I guess you don't have the Qt Ctrl+Tab hardcoded default, since you are trying to map it yourself.

Can you try some things for me?

• Can you map Ctrl+T or any other Ctrl+ shortcut? Or is it specifically Ctrl+Tab that's the problem?
• What happens if you turn on help->debug->report modes->shortcut report mode and try some related shortcuts here? It should talk about anything you type and what is trying to catch and process it. Is Ctrl+Tab 'passing through' a 'PanelThumbnails' but not hitting a 'FrameGUI'? But a different Ctrl+ shortcut is going up to the main frame gui? That's what I see, and I am a little surprised at what is going on. Or is your client unable to ever notice a Ctrl+Tab shortcut?

Am I right that Command+Tab normally moves between open Apps, like Alt+Tab would be on Windows? I wonder if that is hardcoded in macOS, so Qt can't use it somehow. What happens if you try Command+` or Ctrl+`?

[lehitoskin]

First of all, sorry for the late reply!

I have tried a few things and here are the results:

• Ctrl+T and Ctrl+G work and can be mapped as expected. It seems to specifically be Ctrl+TAB that is a problem.
• The client seems unable to see Ctrl+TAB at all, but it can see Ctrl+T/G that I set earlier just fine

v608, 2025-02-14 18:16:56: Key shortcut "control+t" passing through <hydrus.client.gui.pages.ClientGUIMediaResultsPanelThumbnails.MediaResultsPanelThumbnails object at 0x168bc76d0>. I am in a state to catch it.
v608, 2025-02-14 18:16:56: Key shortcut "control+t" passing through <hydrus.client.gui.ClientGUI.FrameGUI object at 0x1433684c0>. I am in a state to catch it.
v608, 2025-02-14 18:16:56: Shortcut "control+t" matched on "main_gui" set to "move page selection right (cycles up through page of pages at boundaries)" command.
v608, 2025-02-14 18:16:56: Shortcut "control+t" matched to command "move page selection right (cycles up through page of pages at boundaries)" on <hydrus.client.gui.ClientGUI.FrameGUI object at 0x1433684c0>. It was processed.
v608, 2025-02-14 18:17:00: Key shortcut "control+g" passing through <hydrus.client.gui.ClientGUI.FrameGUI object at 0x1433684c0>. I am in a state to catch it.
v608, 2025-02-14 18:17:00: Shortcut "control+g" matched on "main_gui" set to "move page selection left (cycles up through page of pages at boundaries)" command.
v608, 2025-02-14 18:17:00: Shortcut "control+g" matched to command "move page selection left (cycles up through page of pages at boundaries)" on <hydrus.client.gui.ClientGUI.FrameGUI object at 0x1433684c0>. It was processed.

Command+TAB does normally cycle through open applications, like Alt+TAB on Windows and Linux. I pressed Ctrl+` and Command+` a bunch and got this output:

v608, 2025-02-14 18:19:27: Key shortcut "control+`" passing through <hydrus.client.gui.canvas.ClientGUICanvas.CanvasMediaListBrowser object at 0x18b774940>. I am in a state to catch it.
v608, 2025-02-14 18:19:27: Key shortcut "control+`" passing through <hydrus.client.gui.canvas.ClientGUICanvasFrame.CanvasFrame object at 0x18b777a30>. I am in a state to catch it.
v608, 2025-02-14 18:19:28: Key shortcut "control+`" passing through <hydrus.client.gui.canvas.ClientGUICanvas.CanvasMediaListBrowser object at 0x18b774940>. I am in a state to catch it.
v608, 2025-02-14 18:19:28: Key shortcut "control+`" passing through <hydrus.client.gui.canvas.ClientGUICanvasFrame.CanvasFrame object at 0x18b777a30>. I am in a state to catch it.
v608, 2025-02-14 18:19:36: Key shortcut "control+`" passing through <hydrus.client.gui.pages.ClientGUIMediaResultsPanelThumbnails.MediaResultsPanelThumbnails object at 0x168bc76d0>. I am in a state to catch it.
v608, 2025-02-14 18:19:36: Key shortcut "control+`" passing through <hydrus.client.gui.ClientGUI.FrameGUI object at 0x1433684c0>. I am in a state to catch it.

Hmm, it doesn't look like it is able to see Command+` for some reason. It does, however, work as expected (at least from a macOS perspective) in that it cycles through windows of the same application.

In other contexts, such as in Firefox, Chrome, or DuckDuckGo, Ctrl+TAB works as expected.

[hydrusnetwork]

Thanks. I know I do some silly stuff with Command vs Ctrl in macOS, so I wonder if something is being swallowed. I will investigate things my end a bit this week and post back here.

[hydrusnetwork]

Hey, I got caught up in rewrites this week and did not have time for this. Delay another week, sorry!